Saddest Party

In fairness, screw Lichtenstein (and Monaco). The entire country only exists to enable rich Europeans and uber-rich corporations to avoid paying taxes. It has more registered corporations than citizens, if that gives you any sense of the financial shennanigans the country is involved in.

@CorruptUser As an American, this is the only way I have heard of Lichtenstein.

@Intelliblue Don't forget A Knight's Tale. Although, that would be more a reference to the family/castle as the country didn't exist yet.

@CorruptUser definitely true, but on a side note always LOL when I remember that HILTI is actually legitimately from Liechtenstein (founded in Schaan in 1924) , and they sell enough products globally to give each resident a 6 figure salary in theory.

@dinomaraschino
Apparently, Lichtenstein was "officially neutral" during WWII but Hilti happened to be selling machine equipment to his neighbor, because apparently the guy who founded it liked helping people with similar last names. Not really selling me on the whole Lichtenstein thing.

I like to imagine they are sitting at the same table but super long they don't see each other

@AmericanButterfly That's very cute!

San Marino has the unfortunate luck of being surrounded by Italy.
So, if you're planning a trip to Venice, you could spend a whole week without leaving the city. Maybe go to Padua, Vicenza or Verona.
Going to Florence? Same thing, and maybe visit Pisa or Siena.
There's a lot of Italy to explore.

Some war-torn countries are more popular than them.

Most likely because the war-torn countries make it into the International news... and therefor there will be people outside of Europe who are aware these countries EXIST.

'@Hinoron' or because there are plenty of volunteers who either think of the war in very romantic terms, or just want to kill people.

@Hinoron , the only at least somewhat war-torn country in Europe is Ukraine. And even that wasn't torn at all when I visited it. There's a war in the very easternmost 5% of the country, plus the southernmost about 5% are under occupation by a foreign country, but there is no noteworthy danger taking place outside those areas. And the location of those areas has remained stable for half a decade now.

India has larger areas under war, and nobody would call it "war-torn". The simple reason for "some war-torn countries" being more popular is that Humon is using a very liberal definiotion for the phrase "war-torn" here. I loved my stay in Ukraine, and because of the war at its eastern front has clipped 75% off its currency's value, it's cheaper to visit than India at the moment! A nice plus in a very hospitable country with very interesting history.

The way tourists act these days, maybe they should be thankful. Netherlands knows what I’m talking about!

@TuxedoCartman can confirm lol

New characters!

theyre so cute ^o^ id come to both of their birthday parties

if you adjusted by population liechtenstein jumps to 36th highest globally, SM would be even higher

@dinomaraschino Indeed San Marino effectively gets two visitors for every one resident per year. In context France gets approx 2 vistitors per 3 residents and the UK gets 1 visitor for 4 residents.

San Marino looks like the setting of a fairy tale.

Little Europe: San Marino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSqoEhWd9cM

I would love that type of quiet life. Just do your thing and the world doesn't know about you so you are left alone to do as you please

@DutchToSwede Hear, hear. They're probably very happy to be left alone in their little paradises!

@sillifellow They don't look very happy...but then, maybe these are tears of joy...